In the twenty-five years of its existence, the hospital has
made wonderful strides, and from a hospital the size of the
average home, it has grown until now it is a building four
stories high, having accommodation for fifty-five patients.
Building plans are under way at the present time, which,
when carried out, will add materially to the betterment of
this splendid institution. The original hospital, now used as a
nurses’ home, is entirely inadequate to house the student and
graduate nurses, and plans are being drawn at the present
time to build a large and modern home at a cost of approxi-
mately $45,000. This new nurses’ home will conform in
every way with State board regulations.
The Canonsburg Hospital School of Nursing is an ac-
credited school offering a three year course, and is open to
girls between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years of age,
having one year of academic high school work. Students are
well cared for, and could not find more pleasant surroundings
in which to study.
The institution is under the control of a board of dir-
ectors, of which the officers are: President, J. H. McBurney;
vice president, W. H. Dunlap; secretary, Charles Schade;
treasurer, George McNutt. Olive McWilliams, R. N., is
the superintendent, and Elizabeth Ralston, R.N., assistant
superintendent, are assisted by a staff of five graduate
nurses. There is an open staff of eighteen doctors, who are
from Canonsburg and the surrounding towns. These doctors,
in their faithful and competent work, make it possible for the
the hospital to maintain its present high standard.
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH
The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is free to every
sick child regardless of color, race and creed, who is in need of
aid, and is unable to pay for it. There are, also, attractive
rooms for private and semi-private patients, and the kind of
medical and surgical treatment that only a children’s hospital
can supply.
This hospital is the gift of over 22,000 citizens of Pitts-
burgh and neighboring towns, who, in 1924, gave sixteen hun-
dred thousand dollars to build and equip it. The present or-
